Tag: illegal narcotics

  • Mexico port security

    Mexico Plans to Stop Port and Customs Corruption with Military Control In its latest efforts to break the stronghold on the illegal cartels, Mexico’s president is preparing to place the […]

  • NN suppressing piracy

    Protecting Nigeria’s territorial waters Despite that the Gulf of Guinea has been identified as global piracy hotbed, PRECIOUS IGBONWELUNDU reports that the sustained sea presence by the Nigerian Navy (NN) […]

  • GoG military exercise starts

    Nigeria joins military exercise in Gulf of Guinea The Nigerian Navy on Wednesday deployed six warships and 65 gunboats in a joint multinational maritime exercise comprising navies from 16 countries. […]

  • Delta hostages rescued

    Nigerian troops rescue 3 Russian sailors, 2 others after raid of pirates’ hideout By Sumaila Ogbaje Three Russian sailors, one Ukrainian and one Equatorial Guinean kidnapped by pirates since 9 […]

  • USCG in big drugs haul

    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (CMC) — The United States Coast Guard on Saturday reported that the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Heriberto Hernandez offloaded approximately 1,981 kilogrammes of cocaine […]

  • RN in huge drug bust

    A Royal Navy task group has prevented drugs worth more than £160 million from potentially reaching the UK on two daring operations in the Caribbean. RFA Argus, alongside her Wildcat […]

  • Covid piracy surge?

    by Theo Locherer The last quarterly report from the International Maritime Bureau shows the negative effects of the Covid-19 on maritime security. There tend to be significant upswings of piracy […]

  • WAF piracy: media to blame?

    West African piracy remains a threat but attacks are not becoming more frequent despite headline-grabbing abduction stories in the media. That is the view of Dirk Siebels, senior analyst at […]

  • Dover cocaine find

    About a tonne of cocaine with a street value of approximately £100m has been found hidden in a shipment of fruit. The Class A drug was found in pallets on […]

  • USCG offloads seized drugs

    MIAMI, United States (CMC) — The United States Coast Guard says that crew members from its Cutter Harriet Lane have offloaded about 12,100 pounds of cocaine and about 5,759 pounds […]